Tuesday we had a lesson with Linda and Arnez and we watched a conference talk with them "The First Generation". It was really good for them and we had a good discussion with them and also got to talk a little about the word of wisdom! Arnez is still struggling with it a bit but knows she's going to have to stop before she gets baptized and says then she will be done forever! Hopefully we can get her to quit sooner rather than later! After our lesson we went to the Zauggs and had lunch with them and shared a message about the Book of Mormon! Then we didmormon.org and then after that we went and contacted a referral! Elder Pritchett who served here at the beginning of his mission is now our zone leader and so he gave us the referral to go see Bill and Candy! He said that their daughter got baptized in Topsham a few years ago but I wasn't sure who it would have been! So we went to the house and Candy came out and talked to us and said that the rest of her family was sick but that we could come back another time! And then she was telling us about her daughter that got baptized in Topsham and was married now and then it clicked in my head who it was! and I said oh Jade?!? and she said yeah! and so I told her I used to be in Topsham! So I know her daughter (but her and her husband were kind of less active when i was there and we tried to go see them a few times but they were always super busy) so the parents aren't members..(yet) but we are gonna go back and see them again soon! :) So after that we went to the church for the Relief Society meeting and it was all about family home evening!! It was super good! There were three different sisters that shared experiences and how they do it! Sister Barker has a neat way of doing it and every monday of the month has a different theme so like the first monday is family history (doing family history, indexing, telling stories about ancestors) then the second is focus so they focus on one thing (maybe a kid's science project or something) then the third monday fun (like going somewhere, ice skating, baseball game) and then the fourth monday free! (so like board games, or a movie) I really liked that idea!! :) They also had a clothing swap and I scored a new skirt :) So that was fun to go to!
Wednesday we had district meeting and I took the shamrock cookies to share with everyone and they loved them :) Then we had a church tour!!! The couple came and it was so awesome!!! We showed them the whole building, all the pictures and everything... my favorite part was when we got to the picture of the first vision and I got to tell them about it and tell them of Joseph's Smith experience in the sacred grove!! Ahhh!!! The spirit was so strong! I just love being able to tell people about it and to bear my testimony of the restoration of the gospel!!! :D We gave them a restoration pamphlet and they have both our numbers so they said they would give us a call! It was really great :) Then we went and saw sister russell! Read the Book of Mormon with her! Then we had Book of Mormon class and had two people come!! And then went home for dinner!
Thursday we went over and had a lesson with just Linda and watched another conference talk with her! Then Arnez and Tom got home so we got to visit with them for a bit! and then we went to the food pantry! It was super fun as always!! Then we went to Melanie's and we helped her to clean out her spare bedroom and then she had pizza for us! and then we went over to the Royers for a little bit!
Friday we did some weekly planning and then we went over to the Kanewskes and worked on the food storage room and got a lot done!! We were there for a while and then when we came home we made brownies, ate dinner and did some more planning!
Saturday ended up being a day full of studying the scriptures!!! Sister Huefner wasn't feeling well so she slept for a little bit and I decided to start the Book of Mormon from the very beginning again! So I got a brand new one and I decided that I would mark every reference to Christ! So I started doing that and then started drawing hearts every time it said heart or love... and then every time that it said "I know"... haha you want to know the best scripture marking tools ever?? crayola twistables. they're the best :) and i've converted sister huefner to them also now :) haha so pretty much all day I was just reading the Book of Mormon and marking it up! I read 276 pages!! It was crazy!!! I just didn't even want to go to sleep cuz I was glued to the book! haha! so I guess that's how to get me to like reading!! just let me color the whole way through!!! It was so much fun! and I was learning lots just speed reading my way through!! haha it was awesome! So now I'm almost done with the Book of Mormon again!
Sunday I woke up and went straight to my Book of Mormon to continue my marking and reading :) and then we went to church! We got to do primary again and there were a whole 3 primary kids!! :O man..we really need to find and teach some more families!!!! But it was fun! and then we had lunch at the church! then that's when we found the elders eggs...decorated them...then dropped the off! and then we went and saw sister gove! her surgery went well and she was back at home! So that was good! and then we stopped by the Royers on our way home and had dinner with them!
And now back to Monday! We woke up...studied! cleaned our apartment...then came to do emails!!! and now we are just finishing up and then we're headed to Augusta for district pday! and then we come back and I'm headed to Yarmouth for exchanges!!! should be fun!!! So I hope you all have a wonderful week!!! Happy Spring!! :) LOVE YOU!!!!
Sister Tait
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